Lucas
The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Friendships
- Published
- July 1, 2026
- Duration
- 9:41
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Jul 26, 2026
Discusses Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion doesn't just stay at the office — it rewires…
Summary
Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion doesn't just stay at the office — it rewires your social life. They discuss a 2024 study from the Journal of Applied Psychology that found burned-out professionals lose an average of two close friendships per year, and the psychological mechanism called 'social withdrawal cascade' that explains why. …
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Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion doesn't just stay at the office — it rewires your social life. They discuss a 2024 study from the Journal of Applied Psychology that found burned-out professionals lose an average of two close friendships per year, and the psychological mechanism called 'social withdrawal cascade' that explains why. Lucas shares a case from a Deloitte consultant who stopped seeing friends entirely after a 14-month project, and Luna talks about the 'friendsh